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Though top energy experts in Ottawa and Washington seem to favor the Arctic route, it still faces formidable hurdles. One is that the Canadian government almost certainly will have to come to some agreement over land rights with the Indians and Eskimos of the Northwest Territories...
...rooms. "Even the lobby was wall-to-wall people," said one employee. The 500 patients at the Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital crowded a little closer so that some 2,000 unexpected visitors could find places to sleep. Near the city zoo, residents saw a strange sight befitting the arctic scene: reindeer roaming in their backyards. The herd had escaped from the zoo by simply walking across a snow-packed moat...
...conservation plans: one possibility is a four-day work week. Meanwhile. state authorities were moving fast on their own. Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp ordered all of his state's schools closed. The National Guard was called out to help remove snow in Buffalo; even a local course in arctic survival techniques was canceled because of the weather. Maryland ordered a drastic reduction in all business uses of natural gas. Heating costs soared in New England, where poor residents of Providence sought emergency loans from a $400,000 state fund to help pay their fuel bills...
...year ago. Nearly every gas-transmission company has curtailed deliveries to utilities, and utilities in turn have cut off service to factories. Plant closings, often for only a day or two at a time, have idled 400,000 workers by White House estimate, and the blizzardy blast of arctic air at week's end threatened many more layoffs-at least 300,000 in New Jersey alone. General Motors, U.S. Steel and other large companies kept many operations going by switching from natural gas to oil or coal, but all over the Midwest huge quantities of those fuels were immobilized...
...Limit. On the fourth morning, as the 82 remaining racers waited at Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin the final 148-mile sprint to Winnipeg, a wave of fierce Arctic air-accompanied by a blizzard-swept in. Temperatures plummeted to -16°, and the 30 m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked...